General economic history

Table of content:
Introduction to the Routledge Classics Edition Keith Tribe

Conceptual Preface

Part I: Household, Clan, Village and Manor

1. Agrarian Organization and the Problem of Agrarian Communism

2. Appropriation and Verband – the Clan

3. The Economic Development of Seigniorial Property

4. Manorial Rule

5. The Situation of the Peasantry in Various Occidental Countries Before the Penetration of Capitalism

6. The Capitalistic Development of the Manor

Part II: Industry and Mining before the Development of Capitalism

7. Principal Forms of Industrial Organization

8. Developmental Stages of Industry and Mining

9. Craft Guilds

10. The Emergence of Occidental Guilds

11. The Disintegration of the Guilds and Development of the Domestic System

12. Workshop Production. The Factory and its Fore-Runners

13. Mining Prior to Capitalist Development

Part III: Commerce in Goods and Money in the Precapitalist Era

14. The Origins and Development of Trade

15. Technical Preconditions for the Carriage of Goods

16. The Organizational Forms of Trade and Transport

17. Trading and Forms of Economic Enterprise

18. Merchant Guilds

19. Money and Monetary History

20. Money and Banking in the Precapitalist Era

21. Interest in the Precapitalistic Era

Part IV: The Emergence of Modern Capitalism

22. The Concept and Presuppositions of Modern Capitalism

23. The External Features of Capitalist Development

24. The First Major Speculative Crises

25. Free Wholesale Trade

26. Colonial Policy from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century

27. The Development of Industrial Technology

28. Citizenship

29. The Rational State

30. The Evolution of the Capitalistic Spirit

31. Rational Economic Ethic and the Rational Spirit (Gesinnung)

Index

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Sociologist, historian and political economist, Max Weber is one of the most important thinkers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His astonishing range and penetrating insights resulted in many influential books spanning religion, society, politics, and economics, permanently affecting the direction of the social sciences.

General Economic History, published in 1923 (three years after Weber's death) and compiled from meticulous notes taken by his students, ranks as one of his most important books. It is a landmark work in economic history. From early forms of exchange in pre-capitalist households and villages, through industry and the beginnings of commerce, to the evolution of trade and money, Weber tells the epic story of the development of Western capitalism. At its heart, he argues, capitalism is driven by two immensely powerful forces: the basic, material needs that human beings seek to fulfil; and the fundamental but intangible spirit that sets capitalism in motion.

This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Introduction and, for the first time in English, a translation of Weber’s original "Conceptual Preface" to the German edition, both by Keith Tribe. Also included are some corrections to the main text.

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